Harrison wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:14 amHow long have you had your Stetsonia Coryne Wayne?
Somewhere along the way in my Cactus growing/collecting career I started taking pictures of them on a regular basis so I would know what how they were doing from year to year. What kind of growth they or putting on. But I did not always do this. I started it some couple of years after I started my collection. My very first picture of the
Stetsonia coryne was taken in May of 2014. So it is at a minimum, just slightly less than 4 years old. It
could be as much as a year or year-and-a-half to two years older. And i have no idea at all how long the grower had it.
Harrison wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:14 am... by the beginning of November it was showing signs of frost damage...
What kinds of signs? Was it turning yellow like mine has done?
Harrison wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:14 am... although it was only getting down to the middle 40s at night here...
I have a thermostatically controlled space heater in my Greenhouse (which is only 4 or 5 ft wide by 10 ft long) , that comes on when the temperature goes as low as 40 degrees and turns itself back off when the temperature goes as high as 45. I did have one brief session, to my best knowledge, only a couple of hours long, where the heater could not keep the temperature as high as 40 when the ambient temperature reached below 20.
Harrison wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:14 am...
Maybe individual plants can get acclimated to colder temperatures if given enough time ...
I would not be even remotely surprised if that were not the case. In fact I consider it the greatest likelihood.
When you read this, please be so kind as to reply and let me know what kind of damage your
Stetsonia coryne suffered because of the cold, and did it survive? And did it survive unharmed or with damage?
My First Response, when any of my succulents look like they might be suffering because of the cold is to bring them inside and that is what I did with the stetsonia. I watered and fertilized it and it's already starting to look a little greener than it was. At least I think so.
I use voice-to-text-transcription to do all of my text entry, as I can speak much faster than I can type. But this system has the unfortunate propensity to doing rather strange capitalization at times. And I find it hard enough
just to correct my English usage errors, so that I really don't feel up to going back and fixing the capitalization problems. Please excuse that if you will please.
